Psych 100 Exam 4

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Phases of Sexual responsive cycle

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Excitement Phase
Plateau Phase
Orgasm
Resolution
Refractory Period

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Sexual Disorders

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impaired sexual arousal or functioning

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Estrogen

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peak during ovulation among animals

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Testosterone

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rats and female humans regained their sexual interest when being rejected

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Reasons for contraceptive non-use

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Ignorance
Little Communication about bc
Guilt
Alcohol Use
Media norms of unprotected promiscuity

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Psychological disorders

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Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional

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DSM-IV-TR ASA's

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Is a clinical syndrome present?
Is a personality disorder or intellectual disability present?
Is a general medical condition present?
Are psycosocial or environmental problems present?
What is the global assessment of this person's functioning?

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David Rosehan study

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shows how labels can misdiagnose disorders

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Generalized Anxiety disorder

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continually tense and uneasy for no reason

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Panic Disorder

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minutes long episode of fear that something bad is going to happen

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Stimulus generalization

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person attacked by dog later fears dogs

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Reinforcement

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avoiding the feared situation reduces anxiety

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Natural selection

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we are biologically prepared to fear threats faced by our ancestors

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Genes

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some are predisposed to anxiety; anxiety gene that affects serotonin and glutamate

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Brain

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overarousal of brain areas involved in impulse control and habitual behaviors

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Mood disorders

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emotional extremes; major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder

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Bipolar

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alternating between mania and depression; large mood swings

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left frontal lobe during depression

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inactive; handles positive emotions

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severe depression frontal lobes

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7% smaller

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Norepinephrine

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increases arousal and boosts mood; scare during depression, over-abundant during mania

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Serotonin

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Scare during depression

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Depressions vicious cycle

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Stressful experience
Negative Explanatory Style
Depressed Mood
Cognitive and Behavioral Changes

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Attribution Theory

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theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

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the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition

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Attitudes

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feelings influenced by our beliefs that predispose our reactions to objects, people and events. Mean person= dislike and act unfriendly towards

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Serotonin

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Scare during depression

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Depressions vicious cycle

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Stressful experience
Negative Explanatory Style
Depressed Mood
Cognitive and Behavioral Changes

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Attribution Theory

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theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition

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Fundamental attribution error

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the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition

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Attitudes

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feelings influenced by our beliefs that predispose our reactions to objects, people and events. Mean person= dislike and act unfriendly towards

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Central Route Persuasion

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occurs when people are naturally analytical or involved in the issue

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Peripheral Route Persuasion

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occurs when issues don't engage systematic thinking

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Foot-in-the-door Phenomenon

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tendcy for someone to adhere to a small request and later adhere to a larger one

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Role

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a set of explanations about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave

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Cognitive dissonance theory

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theory that we act to minimize discomfort we feel when 2 of our thoughts conflict

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Conformity

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changing one's opinion or behavior to that of a group's norm

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Normative social influence

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influence resulting from one's desire to gain approval/ avoid disapproval

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Information social influence

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influence from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality

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Conformity

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changing one's opinion or behavior to that of a group's norm

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Social Facilitation

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stronger responses to simple or well-learned tasks in front of others

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Normative social influence

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influence resulting from one's desire to gain approval/ avoid disapproval

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Social Loafing

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the tendency for people in a group to exert less energy when pooling their efforts together toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable

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Information social influence

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influence from one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality

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Social Facilitation

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stronger responses to simple or well-learned tasks in front of others

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Social Loafing

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the tendency for people in a group to exert less energy when pooling their efforts together toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable

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Deindividuation

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the loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

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Group polarization

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the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group

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Groupthink

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the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-- making group overrides a realistic approval of alternatives

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Effects of group interaction

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motivate people to exert themselves, make easy tasks easier and difficult tasks harder, enhance humor or fuel mob violence